A presentation on the nature of science and how it relates to quantum mechanics. Level is for high school to beginning college. Takes the viewer through the quirks and seeming paradoxes of quantum mechanics, including the double slit experiment and Schrodinger's Cat.

"California Department of Public Health and Pandemics: All Hands on Deck!" A Public Health Seminar Delivered By Dr. Mark Horton, Director of California Department of Public Health, on January 25, 2010.

"Leadership and Communications in Regulatory Affairs to Protect the Public Health." A Public Health Seminar Delivered By Alonza Cruse, Director, Los Angeles District Office of the United States Food and Drug Administration on Monday, January 11, 2009.

"Cholera, Canker Rash and Consumption: historical epidemiology and nosology in Massachusetts, 1850-1920", A recorded Public Health Seminar by Professor Alan C. Swedlund - November 9, 2009. Alan C. Swedlund is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Dr. Fred (Skip) Burkle, MD, MPH is a Senior Fellow with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a Senior Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC, Professor, Department of Community Emergency Health, Monash University Medical School, Melbourne, Australia, Senior Associate Faculty, Department of International Health and the Center for Refugee & Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutes, and Adjunct Professor, the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.This is a public health seminar on public health emergencies delivered on October 26, 2009 by Dr. Fred Burkle at UC Irvine.

"First Amendment in a Multicultural Society." A lecture delivered by UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky on February 11, 2010 as part of the Campus Conversations Series sponsored by UCI's Office of Equal Opportunity & Diversity. Dean Chemerinsky, author of four books, Federal Jurisdiction, Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies, Constitutional Law and Interpreting the Constitution, was named by Legal Affairs as one of "the top 20 legal thinkers in America." He has frequently argued appellate cases before the United States Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeals; and he has testified many times before congressional and state legislative committees. He regularly serves as a commentator on legal issues for national and local media.

"How Predictable is the Climate System: Droughts, Floods, and Extreme Events." A lecture delivered by UCI Professor Soroosh Sorooshian on February 20, 2008. Professor Sorooshian, Director of the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing at the University of California, Irvine is both Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Earth System Science. Among the world's top experts on drought, he has been advisor to the World Meteorological Organization and in 2005 received the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal for "providing scientific leadership for global water cycle research and assuring that NASA science is well integrated into international programs." His research focuses on surface hydrology, primarily in the area of rainfall-runoff modeling.

There are over 300 math tutorial videos for the subjects of arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, and calculus. All are hosted you YouTube and are 10 minutes or less. The purpose of these videos are to enhance the understanding of concepts in addition to providing example problems. Animations and the graphing calculator are integrated when appropriate.There are two ways to access the videos.1. There is a blog that hosts all of the videos. From the blog the videos can be searched by topic or browsed by course.2. There is a website that hosts all of the videos. From the website the videos are listed by course and organized by topic.

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World Cultures is an internet classroom and anthology. It has readings and learning modules that cover a broad spectrum of world history. Great as an ancillary use site.

"Putting Together the Pieces of the Universe." A lecture delivered by UCI Professor James Bullock on February 11, 2009. James Bullock, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine, is part of a team of scientists who believe they have discovered the minimum mass for galaxies in the universe -- 10 million times the mass of the sun. This mass could be the smallest known "building block" of the mysterious, invisible substance called dark matter. Stars that form within these building blocks clump together and turn into galaxies. Dark matter governs the growth of structure in the universe. Without it, galaxies like our own Milky Way would not exist. Dark matter's gravity attracts normal matter and causes galaxies to form small galaxies and to merge to create larger galaxies.

A Public Health Seminar delivered by Melanie Pickett on Monday, April 26, 2010. The rate of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) deaths in Massachusetts was examined before and after the implementation of a comprehensive smoke-free workplace law in July 2004. The impact of the state law in cities/towns with and without prior local smoking bans and the effect of the local laws were examined for the period 1999 through 2006. Following the implementation of the state law, there was a 7.4% (95% CI: 3.3%, 11.4%) decrease in the AMI mortality rate. There was an impact of the state ban in cities/towns with no prior local smoking ban (9.2% decrease, p<0.001), but no observed impact if there was a prior local smoking ban. However, there was a non-significant 4.9% (95% CI: -5.0%, 13.9%) decrease associated with the local smoking ban, which preceded the effect of the state ban. The effect of the state ban was modest (-1.6%) in the first twelve months after implementation, but much larger after the first 12 months (-18.6%, p<0.001). Overall, an estimated 270 fewer AMI deaths per year were associated with the comprehensive statewide smoke-free workplace laws in Massachusetts.

Geoffrey D. Dabelko, PhD, Director, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars (Washington DC) Political Rhetoric or Policy Reality? Tracking Trends in Environment, Peace, and Security: Over the past 25 plus years, the understanding of environment and security links has evolved to reflect changing threat and opportunity scenarios. Today, "environmental security" has become a popular phrase used to encompass everything from oil exploration to pollution controls to corn subsidies. While environmental advocates and security actors remain wary of each other's focus, means, and ends, both scholars and policymakers are working to better understand these linkages and respond to them. Today, the wide range of potential climate change impacts is re-energizing broader debates over human security that suggest redefining security beyond purely militaristic terms. At the same time, the traditional security community's increased concern with climate change (and the social reactions it may produce) has helped garner wider attention. The number of U.S. and overseas policy responses is dizzying. In this lecture, Geoff Dabelko highlights key environmental security policy developments and situate today's initiatives within a context of nearly three decades of efforts.

The International Studies David Kaye is the executive director of the UCLA School of Law International Human Rights Program. He teaches international human rights and directs an International Human Rights Clinic. For more than a decade, David Kaye served as an international lawyer with the U.S. State Department, responsible for issues as varied as human rights, international humanitarian law, the use of force, international organizations, international litigation and claims, nuclear nonproliferation, sanctions law and policy, and U.S. foreign relations law. He was a legal adviser to the American Embassy in The Hague, where he worked with the international criminal tribunals and acted as counsel to the United States in several cases before the International Court of Justice and the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. From 1999-2002, he was the principal staff attorney on humanitarian law, handling issues such as the application of the law to detainees in Guantanamo Bay and serving on several U.S. delegations to international negotiations and conferences. The State Department honored him with four of its prestigious Superior Honor Awards.

כמה מילונים: תיאור קצר של האישים המופיעים בקורס, מילון המגדיר מונחים הקשורים לעולם ההלכה היהודי ומתאר בקצרה מונחים כפי שהם נתפסים על ידי המסורת, וכפי שנתפסו בעיני הרמב"ם עצמו (המילון אינו מתייחס למושגים אלו כפי שהמחקר האקדמי מגדירם); מילון הכולל הסברים למושגים מתחום המחשבה המוזכרים בקורס.

April 16-17, 2010. Legal historians have long explained law through its relationship to what lies "outside" it: law & society, law & policy, law & economy. What if we imagine them as the same phenomenon - not law & economy, but law as economy (or economy as law)? What of law as art, as science, as war, as peace?

A Public Health Seminar Delivered By Dr. Eric Handler and Mr. Paul Leon, Orange County Health Care Agency, on March 8, 2010.

This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to important historical, cultural, literary, and political issues concerning African Americans. Through critical readings of literary, artistic, and filmic texts, this course provides an overview of African American experiences from the 17th through mid-20th centuries. Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of the historical and cultural experiences of African Americans from the beginning of the Transatlantic Slave Trade through the Civil Rights Movement. To focus our journey, the course begins with a discussion of the discourse of African American Studies as an academic discipline. Students will proceed to examine the process of forced emigration from Africa, chattel slavery in the British Colonies, the formation of African American identity in the 18th and 19th centuries, and struggles for social transformation and resistance by African Americans in the United States.

Ethics and Sustainability, recorded video lecture with Professor Richard Matthew on February 16, 2010.

"Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance." An International Studies Public Forum at UC Irvine on Thursday, February 4, 2010 with with Michael J. Tierney, College of William and Mary. Michael J. Tierney is the Hylton Associate Professor of Government and the Director of the International Relations Program at the College of William and Mary. He received his B.A. in government from William and Mary in 1987 and Ph.D. from U.C. San Diego in 2003.